Sharpstown Revisited: Frank Sharp and a Tale of Dirty Politics in Texas

by Mickey Herskowitz

Photo Illustrations section - The cast included the governor of Texas, Speaker of the House, the state's brighest political star, and two former state attorney generals. Astronauts and priests and even the Pope made cameo appearances. One trail led straight to the Nixon White House. The author also reexamines the life of Frank Sharp, who died in early 1993. A product of the Depression Years growing up in Crockett, Sharp, with only a high school education, had a skyrocketing career as a Houston and national power broker...

176 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1994